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The New King of Coke (Part 3)
In part three of the five-part series, VICE News spends the night with a Peruvian cocaine producer as he cooks the drug in an underground lab in Lima.
The New King of Coke (Trailer)
Peru is now the world's leading producer of cocaine. VICE News traveled there to find out how this new title is forcing the military to ramp up, and the government to crack down.
A Top UN Official Is Not Happy About US States Legalizing Weed
The organization's anti-narcotics chief said recent votes to legalize marijuana violate the international conventions that guide global drug policy.
Despite Billions Spent to Eradicate Opium, Afghans Are Cultivating More of It Than Ever
In Afghanistan, where poverty and unemployment is endemic, poppy cultivation provides work for nearly 200,000 families — and has produced a dramatic rise in substance abuse.
Drug Abuse Is on the Rise in Iraq After Years of Instability
Iraq's deteriorating security situation and rampant corruption has led to a sharp rise in drug use, including heroin and crystal meth.
Southeast Asia’s War on Drugs Is a Grotesque Failure, but Why Stop?
Southeast Asian countries have taken interdiction further than most, consistently executing people for non-violent drug crimes.
Pope Francis Spoke Out Against Drug Legalization — Here's Why He's Wrong
The Pope's remarks risk stigmatizing practical solutions that treat drug abuse as a public health issue rather than a criminal one.
West African Commission on Drugs Advocates Decriminalization
“The simple use or consumption of any illicit drug by an individual should not be considered a crime,” the commission said in its report.
The Most Important UN Drug Summit in Decades Was Really Depressing
This month's meeting of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime was supposed to be an important event in the war on drugs, but instead it was yet another gathering of prohibitionists trotting out the same old platitudes
Kyrgyzstan Is the Latest Victim of the Global Heroin Trade
Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Kyrgyzstan has been a preferred route for drug traffickers sending heroin from Afghanistan to Russia. This has led to widespread addiction and an epidemic of organized crime.
The Motherboard Guide to New Psychoactive Substances
Designer drugs are being tweaked, multiplied, and injected into the internet's one-stop pharmacies so furiously that authorities are scrambling to rejigger existing global drug laws that just can't keep up with today's synthetic speed. Here's what you...
The Motherboard Guide to New Psychoactive Substances
Almost everything you'd ever want to know about the near past, present, and possible ecommerce futures of "new" and "legal" brain-blasting drugs.